But any attempt to send more men or supplies would be seen as an act of war civil war.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

The semiotician's answer to this is it never could have happened simply as an act of agency, as an act of will.

符号学者这样解释,这不是一己之力的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Socrates' death at the age of 70 was intended by him as an act of philosophical martyrdom that would allow future philosophy to be favorably recognized as a source of courage and justice.

苏格拉底死于70，岁0,是他盘算中的,哲学殉道举动,让哲学在将来顺利地,被表彰为,是勇气与正义的泉源。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Poles still view the Red Army invasion as an act of aggression, especially the Katyn Forest massacre, in which some 22,000 Polish soldiers, police and intellectuals were murdered by Soviet forces in 1940.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

And just as in that earlier poem the act of fishing is symbolically resonant "The Fisherman" is an image of man searching the depths of the world for the wisdom that hides beneath the surface of things.

和以前的事一样,也是有象征意味的,渔夫是一个探索世界的深邃,和隐藏在事物表面下的智慧,的一个人物形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Investigators in Mexico say the detained suspect claims the ambush of a US couple near the Juarez city hall on Saturday,March 13, was carried out as an act of retribution against Arthur Redelfs, who worked as an El Paso County Sheriff's detention officer and was accused by gang members of mistreating their compatriots there.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

That's right. That's an example, as we talked about in the last class, of the act of keeping records influencing the accuracy of the records, because you're prone to do things differently then what your typical eating might be because you're keeping the records.

对,如我们上节课所谈到的,这有个持续记录会影响记录准确性的例子,由于你不断进行记录,你更可能会吃与不同于平时的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Therefore,to send troops to a state where federal officers had resigned such as South Carolina would be an act of war against the state.

VOA: special.2009.07.16